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. 2024 Mar 8;48:e14. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2024.14

TABLE 2. Coverage of institutional long-term care in four Latin American countries, 2010–2022.

Country

% (no.) of population with LTC needs (1)

% (no.) of people aged ≥ 60 with LTC needs according to national definition (2)

% (no.) of people aged ≥ 65 with LTC needs according to 2020 standardized definition (3)

No. of LTC facilities (4)

No. of people aged ≥ 60 living in LTC facilities (5)

% of older people with LTC needs living in a LTC facility (5)/(1)

Brazil

          8.4%a

          (17.3 million)

          9.5%a

          (3.3 million)

          10.5%

          (2.1 million)

3549b

103 000b

          3.12%

Chile

          16.7%c

          (2.8 million)

          14.2%c

          (488 990)

          12.1%

          (282 587)

1125d

  17 913d

          3.66%

Costa Rica

          18.2%e

          (670 640)

          35.1%e

          (216 884)

          16.4%

          (85 451)

    96f

ND

          ND

Mexico

          11.23%g

          (15.4 million)

          21.25%g

          (1.72 million)

          25.2%

          (2.5 million)

1504h

  27 590h

          0.18%

LTC: long-term care; ND: no data.

a

Data from reference (17), 2019.

b

Data from reference (15), 2010.

c

Data from reference (12), 2017, based on the prevalence of people with moderate to high disability.

d

Data from reference (18), 2022.

e

Data from reference (19), 2019.

f

Data from reference (20), 2020.

g

Data from reference (13), 2018.

h

Data from reference (14), 2020.

Source: Table prepared by the authors based on the sources cited in the footnotes.